CRN Components and Peripherals News

With its high concentration of manufacturers turning out components essential to the world's IT industry, an earthquake, tsunami, or other disaster could one day mean disaster to the tight IT supply chain.

Intel's data center business, including components for servers and storage, grew to a company record high in the third quarter, but it wasn't enough to overcome a drop in its PC and client business, causing revenue and earnings to remain flat year-over-year.

The company's refreshed EliteBook line is thinner and lighter, and now includes two Ultrabooks. Its latest ProBook models retain legacy interfaces for vertical markets. All new laptops now have Haswell.

CRN's Tech 10 looks at the latest UltraHD products currently available for the channel to leverage from Sharp, Sony, LG, Asus and Dell, plus digital display technology from Apple, AMD, Intel, Samsung and Viewsonic.

Intel's low-power-consumption Atom C2000 'Avoton' processors are slated for use in a number of new server, storage and networking platforms where energy efficiency is a must, and CRN has the first take on many of them.

Reacting to last week's fire in a DRAM production facility in Wuxi, China, HP is getting more price aggressive and leveraging supply chain relationships to assure DRAM supply for its PC, printing and server portfolio.

XChange Solution Provider 2015 is finally upon us and the timing couldn't be better. The premier channel event is happening March 1-3 in Dallas, bringing together 225 solution provider decision makers from across North America. CRN is at the event to provide news, analysis and a firsthand take from partners.